I think it was 1968. We would spend the summer playing sandlot baseball at Boileau Field next to Athletic Park. My friend Scott Reynolds lived on Union Ave a couple of houses away from the ballpark. We would head there to cool off with Kool-Aid or popsicles. His older brother Denny played keyboards in a rock band and had his large electric piano/organ set up in their small kitchen. We would mess around with it and he taught us to play the opening to the song Sunshine Of Your Love by Cream. At that point I didnt know much of anything about Cream. I was a Top 40 kid and if Cream did enter my consciousness it was maybe hearing White Room once in awhile that year. In fact, I'm told Cream played in Stevens Point during their existence. I've gotten more aquainted with the band over the years and have watched several excellent documentaries about them and also the making of the classic Lp Disraeli Gears. I mention all this because of the passing over the weekend of drummer Ginger Baker. Baker laid down the eclectic beats for Cream, Blind Faith and his own outfit Ginger Baker's Air Force over a long career. If you listen to him play you know he wasnt simply a timekeeper. He had a background in jazz and it came through in his playing. Ginger Baker was 80 and had been in poor health for awhile. Here are some examples of his work…
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JT numbers compared to Ron Dayne
The Badger football team isnt the only thing rolling in Madison. The Wisconsin womens volleyball team beat ranked teams back to back for the first time ever last week topping 5th ranked Penn State and 2nd ranked Nebraska. And #1 ranked Badger womens hockey team has started the season 4-0 as they swept Penn State.
The Bucks begin the pre-season tonight. You can hear the game on Foxsports Radio AM1390 & FM 93.9. Let the fun begin
Covers Of The Day
Here is a weird cover of White Room from Waylon Jennings
Ella covers Cream!
Quotes Of The Day
“No innocent person has ever threatened the life of a whistleblower”-Jon Cooper
“Keep focused on the correct message…not Republicans vs Democrats as Trump in trying to do but….”The Rule of Law vs Corruption”. Period. This aint partisan, this is right vs wrong.”-Rob Anderson
“Trump has the Vice-President, Attorney General and military paying for rooms at his hotels. His lawyer and campaign chair are in jail. He promised to pardon aides who break the law. He hides his tax returns, hires his family and pays out hish money. But he cares about corruption.”-Keith Boykin
“We just witnessed the US president having a psychotic episode on live TV:The mental decline of Trump has been nothing short of stunning.At this point, it's absolutely gross negligence for White House staff, as well as Trump's family not to do an intervention.”-Bill Madden
“As impeachment push advances, keep in mind modern authoritarian systems don’t withhold the truth. They overwhelm you with info: Some accurate. Some false. Some half accurate, until you believe there is no truth. And that if it exists, it’s unknowable. Then you give up and accept.”-Richard Engel
“Trump told US diplomats an elaborate story about CNN building a $2 million studio in North Carolina and then tearing it down out of anti-GOP bias. The studio…never existed. He made up the whole thing. That was one of his 59 false claims last week.”-Daniel Dale
“The President used taxpayer funded assistance to pressure the leader of a foreign government to investigate his political opponents to benefit his re-election, and enlisted the State Dept and DoJ in that effort. We know this from documents. Everything else is noise.”-Ben Rhodes
“Mob boss wants something. Asks “nicely” so he can claim it wasn’t a demand.
-Mob lawyer tries to make demand happen & hide behind attorney-client privilege.
-Underboss & Capos carry out different parts of the plan.
-They get caught & all claim not to know the whole.
The end.”-Mimi Rocah
“This should be the photo used in history textbooks to define this insane, angry, scandal-ridden, dangerous, unhinged presidency.”-Brian Klaas
“This idea that Pence (or anyone else in the Administration who was living and breathing) didn’t know about Trump’s effort to pressure Zelensky to destroy Biden is BANANAS.Guiliani was publicly bragging about pressuring Ukraine on Trump’s behalf in May.Everybody knew.”-Chris Murphy
“He's caught. He's cold busted. And he's going to be impeached. Fish always flop around before they die. That's what we're seeing right now.”-David Jolly
“Trump faces real accusations of abuse of power. Question now: are Americans smart enough NOT to fall for the conspiracy theories the administration is selling to confuse, fairytales that a cabal of leftist 'deep state' illuminati are a mission to end democracy.”-Richard Engel
“I keep saying this, but the amazing thing about Donald Trump is he is endlessly confessing in public. You don't need secret tapes. You just need to turn a camera on him, or give him a phone connected to Twitter.”-Ezra Klein
“In the time it took me to cross the street, the president* asked two foreign countries to help him ratfck the 2020 election.
That’s some impressive crimin’ right there.”-Charles Pierce
“One read of Trump is he's only so transparent about his misdeeds because he genuinely doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. He thinks he's doing the right thing demanding foreign countries investigate his domestic political rivals. That is, if anything, worse.”-Ezra Klein
“so apparently our president's plan to avoid impeachment is to [checks notes] [looks at camera] [checks notes again] commit more impeachable acts”-Jeff Tiedrich
In a *Fox News* column, Judge Andrew Napolitano says Trump has committed impeachable offenses and that his rhetoric of violence is “palpably dangerous.”
Invoking the possibility of Civil War, he writes, is “a dog whistle to the deranged.”
https://foxnews.com/opinion/judge-andrew-napolitan…
“So many of the reporter tweets about the President just repeat the shitty things he says. It’s truly a way in which journalists cannot manage the medium. They do a great service to the President repeating his crazy/untrue/nasty thing, uncritically and without context.”-Soledad O'Brien
“Pence is a liar. Stop allowing people to use performative Christianity as a shield against their documented conduct.”-Bree Newsome Bass
“The fact that every Republican wasn’t calling for Trump’s resignation the moment he asked China to meddle in our elections is a stone cold indictment of the party.”-Jared Yates Sexton
“It's not that complicated. Trump doesn't care about the constitution because it's just a symbol unless it's enforced. He cares if other people care enough about what's in the constitution to force him to obey it.”-John Dean
“The surviving 2017 Trump admin:
Trump
Pence
Jared
Ivanka
Mnuchin
Ross
Miller
Devos (Erik Prince)
Chao (McConnell)
Carson. With exception of Carson, this group is the heart of the rot and corruption. Their intertwined personal ties, global ties and finances tell an ugly story.”-Sarah Kendizor
“Trump covers up his high Crimes until they’re exposed — then says “So what? I’ll do it again: here, watch me. See? That didn’t hurt so much, did it?” It’s a normalizing technique that works — until it doesn’t.”Lawrecne Tribe
” His campaign manager is a felon. His deputy campaign manager is a felon. His NSA is a felon. His foreign policy advisor is a felon. His longtime personal lawyer is a felon. But the defense is he cares about corruption?”-Stuart Stevens
“The senators are the judges in an impeachment trial. They vote after they hear the evidence. @senatemajldr is pledging his vote and votes of other senators for an acquittal in advance — in exchange for money.
A JUDGE WHO DID THIS WOULD GO TO JAIL. “-Richard Painter
“Any senator—Democrat, Republican or Independent — who sends out a fundraising email saying how he or she is going to vote (guilty or not guilty) BEFORE THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL is asking to be paid for that vote. That senator should be expelled from the Senate for corruption.”-Richard Painter
“It’s difficult to do given the velocity of Trump’s deranged behavior but if you take a bit of time to pause and think about his actions it is an enormously sad moment for our country and the institution of the presidency.”-Mike Barnicle
“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence…the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.”-George Washington in his Farewell Address
